Ventilating system



E. FLANAGAN..

VENTILATING SYSTEM.

APPL1c/1T10NHLED sEP1.19, 1919.

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Edward Faagan AIYORNEIC UNITED STATES EDWARD FLANAGAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

VENTILATING SYSTEM.

Application filed September 19, 1919.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I EDWARD FLANAGAN, a citizen of the United tates residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ventilating Systems, of which the following is a specication.

An object of the invention is to provide a ventilating apparatus for deodorizing the vats, buildings, rooms and containers of plants or places wherein by reason of the particular nature of the product manufactured, obnoxious odors result and which ordinarily if not carried away or in some manner disposed of, become very obnoxious to the persons engaged in the plant and those residing in the surrounding communities.

My invention is particularly adapted to meat packing and slaughter houses and like places, where the offal after the slaughtering of cattle, is treated by boiling or other means to derive the fatty substances. In plants of this character various disagreeable odors result in the process, reducing the oilal and in order to do away with as much as possible, of such odors, I provide a system and apparatus which removes the odors from the building and rooms and the vats employed and in fact reduces to a minimum the odors which arise in all and any parts of the building.

In the further disclosure of the invention reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, constituting a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference denote corres onding parts in all the views, and in whic1,--

rIhe figure is a vertical sectional view, partially diagrammatic, taken through a structure showing my system and apparatus applied thereto.

Referring more particularly to the views the numeral 10 indicates a building which as shown, consists of a ground floor 11 and an upper or second floor 12, providing a lower room 13 and an upper room 14, a well or basin 15 filled with water providing a suflicient water'supply as will be hereinafter more fully disclosed. Adjacent the ground or well 15 there is provided a catch basin 16 into which is drained the various waste matters or other accumulations in various parts of the building. The building 10 as shown, 1s adapted to the removal of commercially valuable substances from the ofi'al of meat Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 324,740.

and slaughterhouses and to this end is provided with a number of vats or tanks 17 the one here shown, being arranged to be supported in the lower compartment orroom 13. The substances to be operated upon are received in the vats and steamed or boiled andv of course it will be apparent that odors will naturally arise and which tend to penetrate throughout the rooms 13, 14 of the building. A pipe 18 has connection with the tanks or vats 17 at the top thereof, said pipe being adapted for removing the odors from said vats and the pipe has connection with a vacuum pump 19 which also receives a supply of water 20 from the basin 15, the pump being operated from any suitable source or power. Connected to the pump 19 is a pipe 21 which extends upwardly in the room 13 and passes through the oor 12 to the upper room 14 after which the pipe is looped as shown and connects with a blower 22 located in the upper room and with which the lower room has communication through a flue 23, the latter connecting directly with the blower. Prior to the formation of the loop in the pipe`21 there extends from the pipe a return pipe 24 which is inclined to allow-the water pumped up in the pipe 21 to pass vthrough the pipe 24 back to the basin 15, the

odors from the substances in the vats 17 being taken off in the pipe 21 as .the water passes out into the return pipe 24, this being due to the suction created by the blower fan 22. The blower may be operated from any suitable source of power such as a motor 25, and extending from the blower is a large flue or lconduit 26 which passesout of the building 10 from the second upper room 11 thereof, to extend down to the stack 27 of a boiler 28. The catch basin 16 has a pipe 29 extending upwardly therefrom to connect with the blower 22 and thus it will be seen that when the blower is in operation and the pump 19 is actuated the objectionable odors will be removed from the vats 17, from the lower room or rooms 13, from the upper room or rooms 14 and from the catch basin 16, and being all centralized toward the blower 22 will, by the suction created at one end of the blower and the forced draft at the other end, cause the odors to pass down through the flue 26 in the stack 27 where they will be substantially taken up and destroyed by the fires and gases from the boiler 28 passing up into the stack.

It will of course be understood that various Patented Dec. 7, 192,0.

slight changes may be made from the construction described herein and set forth in the drawings,'without departing from the spirit of the invention and that Various changes naturally Would occurV in places Where my apparatus is used in connection With plants'of large or small capacity, the scope of the invention being defined in the appended claims'.

Having described'my invention, I claim,

1. A Ventilating system comprising in combination With an exhaust fan having a series of pipes and conduits connecting therewith, of means forroperating the fan, a Vat, a pump, a pipe connecting the Vat to the pump and a second pipe from the pump to the said fan, said pump removing odors from said vat and conveying the same through said pipes to said f'an.

2. A Ventilating system comprising in combination With an exhaust fan having a series of pipes and conduits connecting therewith, of means for operating the fan, a vat, a pump, a pipe connecting the vat to the pump, a second pipe from the pump to the said fan, said pump removing odors from said vat and conveying the same through ing a fluid containing tank, a fan, means for` operating the fan, a pump, a pipe from the tank to the pump, an odor conveying-pipe from the vatto the pump and a pipe from the pump to the fan, the operation of said pump, pumping fluid from said tank and carrying said fluid with the odor drawn from the vat to the said fan for the removal of the odor from the fluid and a return pipe interposed in the pipe from the pump to the fan to return the pumped and deordorized fluid to the tank.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

EDWARD FLANAGAN. 

